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Examining Public Participation and Urban Management at Local Level to Promote Urban Green Spaces in Approach to Enhance Children Skills
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Koorosh Attarian   , Mojtaba Ansari , Mohammad REza Bemanian * |
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| The relationship between natural landscape of a city and society has different dimensions. A large amount of population interacts directly with natural landscape of the city such as recreational parks, public and private green spaces in daily activities. Social perception of urban green spaces differs by residential and socio-economical conditions of users. The following research explores social attitude based on children developmental activities in urban green spaces with different residential households in Shiraz City. Five residential communities with different socio-economic variables and a number of local urban green space users, were chosen for statistical samples. And social viewpoint of local residence based on variety of children activities studied in urban green spaces. The neighborhood chosen in this research differs in king of dwellings and house typology. The residences selected by random from the following urban green space areas: Historic residential context, old private households which have mostly two or less stories, new public housing with multi-storey apartments, new private housing and new towns residential complexes. Analytical-descriptive method applied to study social participating, urban management and children environmental behavior and librarian study used for data collection. The social viewpoints studied by semi-organized interview and questionnaire in field study. The results corresponded with urban management approaches in neighborhood scale for promoting the level of welfare among neighborhood settlers. It is notable that historical fabric differs from the other urban area samples in terms of residence access to the urban green spaces site location. At result the differences between the view points of the neighborhood settlers in urban green spaces was studied. Weakness and strength point of such spaces for encouraging children developmental skills analyzed for a better perspective in urban green spaces management. Also it has been observed that historical characteristics of green spatial expansion are the main priorities of urban green space users. |
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| Keywords: Urban green spaces, Social attitude, urban management, Children skills |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Accepted: 2015/10/14 | Published: 2015/10/14
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